A letter from a convert to Orthodox Christianity from Islam sent to our brothers at OCN. I would like to share with you my story of coming to Christ. My whole family and relatives, including myself, were born and grew up as Muslims—our ideology was fixated on radical Islam. We prayed 5 times a day, […]
My Wife Came Home To Orthodoxy!
by John Gresham What do you do when you want to become Orthodox, but your spouse is not on board? This question is a common one we deal with here at JTO, and very often it has glorious results. Our thanks to John and Brenda Gresham for allowing us to share and repost this excellent account […]
New State Museum Named for Orthodox Priest Opens in Juneau, Alaska
The writer evidently ‘forgot’ to mention that Andrew Kashevaroff was an Alaskan Orthodox priest, or that the current bishop of Alaska, Bishop David of Sitka and All Alaska, gave the invocation. May Fr. Andrew’s memory be eternal! by James Brooks After 12 years and about $140 million in development, Alaska has a new state museum. […]
Church Charity to Feed 1,000 Poor Families for 10 Months
Because charity and evangelism go hand in hand. The Apostoli charity run by the Church of Greece has announced it will provide food to 1,000 low-income families with small children for 10 continuous months. The initiative is being undertaken as part of the Give for Greece program, launched by the International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) […]
Confessions of a Jesus Freak
by Fr. Lawrence Farley As I continue to age, I find increasingly that a generation gap opens up unexpectedly at my feet. The first time it happened was in my first (Anglican) parish, in 1980. I had just heard that John Lennon had died, and I shared the news with a teenaged boy in the […]
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